The best loved man or maid in the town would perish with anguish Could they hear all that their friends say in the course of a day.

There are occasions when you can hear the mysterious language of the Earth, in water, or coming through the trees, emanating from the mosses, seeping through the under currents of the soil, but you have to be willing to wait and receive.

There are three species of creatures who when they seem coming are going, when they seem going they come: diplomats, women, and crabs.

It would never occur to most of us that 'plants' say anything at all, except in terms of what we read into them, or try to use them for. Yet in their responses to this wonderfully rhythmic and varying earth they are the most expressive of all forms of life.

Dealing with a government with whom mendacity is a science is an extremely difficult matter.

Make all good men your well-wishers, and then, in the years' steady sifting, Some of them turn into friends. Friends are the sunshine of life.

The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it.